The term often has a prefix wuyin (five-tone) or liuyin (six-tone); the type was out of the folk medium-seized and small-sized tanggu (hall drum). The set of five or six barrel-shaped drums, with drumheads of different diameters at each end, is arranged in a row of adjustable metal frames, in the order of sizes (pitches). Colorful decorative patterns with the background in red are painted on the shells. The pitch of each drum can be controlled either by the devices on both ends for wuyin paigu and one end for liuyin paigu changing the tension of the drumheads, or rotating the wuyin paigu's shell upside down on the frame to allow use of the opposite head. Which can be tuned in a different pitch when needed. Thus ten different pitches are available on five drums. The meet the needs of performance each drum changes its pitch within a range of a 4th or 5th. The paigu is appropriate for heating jubilation, often in chuida yue (ensemble for wind and percussion). Modern virtuosos, with two beaters, can produce any rapid beats in sophisticated and variable rhythms and timbres on these drums.
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